Sources
Confirm the Death of Minister of Defence Dawood
Rajha
kl:10,47 23|05|2012 Sawtalkurd
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- SRCC sources confirmed the death of Minister of Defence Dawood Rajha and Deputy National Chairman Saed Bkhaitan.
- Iraqi oil ministry announced it will form a committee with Syria to look into investing the Safya al-Muntaj shared oil field.
- Russian-Chinese Asia Union Oil Systems offered the Syrian state-owned marketing establishment, Sytrol, the purchase of Syrian heavy and light oil, the facilitation of oil carriers, and the provision of LPG gas.
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Summary of Events
SRCC sources confirmed the death of Minister of Defence Dawood Rajha and Deputy National Chairman Saed Bkhaitan in the Shami hospital in Damascus. Revolutionaries poisoned the meals of the crisis management command unit tasked with ending the revolution in their latest weekly meeting. The death of Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law and the Deputy Chief-of-Staff Asef Shawkat was confirmed yesterday, however, the condition of National Security Chairman Hisham Bekhtyar has not been confirmed yet.
UN observers visited the village of Bsaira in the province of Deir Azzour; Assad’s forces shelled the village as soon as they left. Security forces also opened heavy fire at demonstrators that gathered to meet the UN observers in the Damascus suburb of Kesweh, despite the fact that observers did not stay for more than five minutes in the suburb.
The regime’s violations to Annan’s peace plan continued, as its forces killed at least 25 people today. Assad’s forces raided the village of Baida in the province of Tartous, conducted arbitrary sweeps, shelled and raided the city of Dael, opened fire in the towns of Herak and Jassem in the province of Daraa, conducted arbitrary arrests and sweeps in the cities of Boukamal and Deir Azzour, shelled the cities of Houleh, Qasir, and Homs, open heavy fire in the village of Bayanoun, and shelled the city of Ezaz in the province of Aleppo.
In the province of Idlib, regime forces shelled the towns of Maaret Noman, Kafrouma, Jabal al-Zawiya, Kafarnabel, Has, Marshmarin, and Abdita, and the city of Khan Sheikhoun amid heavy fire. They also raided the village of al-Rami and the city of Jeser al-Shoghour amid heavy fire. As for the province of Hama, regime forces raided the town of Hayalin and the village of Kawkab amid heavy fire and a campaign of arbitrary arrests and sweeps, shelled the cities of Latamna and Hama and the town of Balas, and opened fire on the city of Halfaya.
In the capital, regime forces raided the neighbourhood of Barzeh. It conducted arbitrary arrests and sweeps, shelled, and opened heavy fire in the suburbs of Zabadani, Moadamiya al-Sham, Douma, Hamouriya, and Deir Asafir.
Iraqi oil ministry announced it will form a committee jointly with Syria to look into investing the Safya al-Muntaj shared oil field. Meanwhile, the Russian-Chinese Asia Union Oil Systems offered the Syrian state-owned marketing corporation, Sytrol, the purchase of Syrian heavy and light oil, the facilitation of oil carriers, and the provision of LPG gas.